New Rug & Snow Storm

Our upstairs bathroom got a new zebra design rug. It certainly completes the room.

And currently we are in the middle of winter storm, which started yesterday morning. As of this morning we probably had gotten about a foot of snow... and it continued snowing all day today.

The weather guys were right about this evening with the heaviest snow fall. When I came home from work and walked only from my car to the back door, the snow in our driveway came up past my knees! We'll have a lot of digging to do tomorrow morning.

A Weekend Project!!

Well, our upstairs bathroom updates happened a lot sooner than anticipated... it seems that we made up for our quiet January all on one weekend. We came home with new flooring and  working men's beer Saturday afternoon. The flooring tiles went in pretty well, even with the claw foot tub and its pipes, until we had to undo what our plumber did to install our new toilet! A bit of setback Saturday night, but we came up with a plan by the time we went to bed. Thank goodness for YouTube videos.  

Sunday we finished the toilet part of this puzzle and a few end pieces. A big win without a water leak! Here are the pictures of "Before" and "After."

The floor turned out much better than we expected. Now we definitely need a new smaller zebra design rug in front of the sink. Joe even kept on going and installed a new faucet, not a simple job when dealing with 40 plus year old valves and fixtures. This bathroom project was yet again an impromptu one... a brand new toilet led to a trip to a store to check out flooring options, and then the transformation happened. Joe the plumber was a super trooper to go along with my ideas/plans. He knew he couldn't stop me :)  

The New Throne

Yesterday we got a new toilet installed in our upstairs bathroom. Finally to replace the old one that didn't flush well. It's nice and shiny! The only problem is that now we really need to put flooring in. The painted subfloor just doesn't look good anymore.... so stay tuned for further updates.